Sixties

"Sixties" in a Sentence (23 examples)

By then Tony was in his middle sixties and still able to work hard, but he had a brand-new truck now, a new mower, a lot of other equipment and three people helping him.

We deal here with Emmet's 'dyad' style first presented in his experimental works in the late sixties.

People said so in the sixties.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

This murder case dates back to the early sixties.

While the Roaring Forties may be fierce, 10 degrees south are even stronger gale-force winds called the Furious Fifties. And 10 degrees south of the Furious Fifties lie the Screaming Sixties!

Sami came to Egypt in the late sixties.

Sami was in his sixties.

Sami and Layla were in their late sixties.

Sami is in his sixties.

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I remember living through the sixties.

During the sixties [1860s] the Sabbatarians were particularly active in their attacks on Sunday excursions, and this had an effect both on the companies and the public.

She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when.

Highs in the mid sixties.

She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.

Historians do not rely on single bits of evidence, but are always seeking corroboration, qualification, correction. These novels, set in context, are in themselves interesting fragments of sixties culture.

Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate.

Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth[…]

2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/sixties-decade-was-it-good-sexual-revolution-swinging-london-hippies-culture-music-art-germaine-a7946506.html When asked what the Sixties were all about, most people reply: peace, love, happiness.

Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.

The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history.

But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960.

It is relatively easy to choose some event (Kent State, Altamont, Watergate, and the fall of Saigon are favorites) as the end of the Sixties[…]

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